Ms Oonagh Buckley:

It is worth saying, and I am only getting to grips with this myself, that often when the board loses a case it is because 30 or 40 grounds are put up against the board and the board has to win on all grounds. If it loses on one, it loses the case. Then the case is more often than not remitted to the board and the board takes a decision, having regard to fixing the problem that it lost on the previous time, whether that was a procedural problem, a lack of explanation for its decisions or whatever else. The bigger issue is less about the board being able to say it wins quite a few cases. We do win and we should win; the real issue for me is the concessions. The board is conceding too many cases and it is conceding on obvious grounds. It needs to make its decisions and procedures more robust and it needs to learn from those errors so it will not make them in the future.